Videos look white

[El Koeno]

Hi,

As my old video card broke down, I bought a "new" one, a G-forece 6200 A-LE. Nothing fancy, but neither is the rest of my PC so it didn't really matter.

Well, anyway, ever since I have it, videos appear to have some sort of white overlay over them. They look really white, a bit like the gamma correction is too high. You can still watch them, but it's not really nice. It's just video clips, everything else (e.g. the windows desktop, games or flash files) look perfectly fine. Also, the problem appears irrespective of the mediaplayer used: Quicktime, MediaPlayer, Media Player Classic, VLC all have this problem.

The weirdest thing happend just now while I was watching a football match online: It looked white, then I decided to change some settings in the nVidia control panel, which I didn't save(!) and after returning to the match it looked normal. Hooray! Alas, I left the game for a while (closing the window), and when I got back to it, the problem re-appeared. Any idea what could cause such behavior?

 

[Macha]

If your old video card was not a nvidia 6x00, you may need to download the correct drivers from http://nvidia.com .

 

[El Koeno]

If your old video card was not a nvidia 6x00, you may need to download the correct drivers from http://nvidia.com .

I did download the latest drivers when I installed the thing. Sorry, should have mentioned that.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Maybe its something up with your codecs. Try installing K-Lite

 

[El Koeno]

Maybe its something up with your codecs. Try installing K-Lite

Yeah I though about codecs, but doesn't VLC use its own codecs? (Perhaps this was a silly question, but I never really got the whole codec thing.) Anyway, that link seems pretty useful, thanks.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

I dont think so. VLC still uses codecs you have installed on your system, as before I install K-Lite, I frequently get the "No Codec Found" error.